In 2021, Alabama’s state government took more money from taxpayers than ever before. The big question is, what will state government leadership do with it? It should be used to provide tax relief to citizens and businesses, not to continue to grow government.

Listened to any good books lately?

What is the greatest threat to educating children today? Is it COVID-19, or ignorance? I’m going for number two. There is growing evidence to back me up.

Congratulations, Chicago. The city is celebrating the 150th anniversary of the Great Chicago Fire, although “celebrate” is not the best verb to use.

With the death of Sgt. Nick Risner this weekend, our state has lost 10 law enforcement officers in 10 months and 24 officers in five years.

We Americans are 330,000,000 people trying to find a way to travel together to the same place. Or so we like to think.

It is a metaphor for what is occurring at seemingly all levels of our country and culture. The United States Postal Service (USPS) has announced it will slow service for first-class mail and periodicals while “temporarily” increasing prices on all “commercial and retail domestic” packages ..…

At last, Black girls’ lives matter too.

I’m a 42-year-old mother of four teenagers. For most of my life, I have been engaged in the political process and have instilled the values of engaging in the political process in my children. So, when my son Donovan had the opportunity to visit our state capital as an eighth-grade K-12 onli…

Ben Lamm and George Church are thinking big. Their new bioscience and genetics startup is called Colossal, and Colossal’s first project is mammoth. Literally.

There are forces that wish to destroy America. Some of them are visible and some are stealth.

LOS ANGELES — Forget what you hear most pundits saying about last week’s recall election that failed to unseat California Gov. Gavin Newsom. Some Democrats think, because Newsom ran on an anti-Trump platform, that will bring the party success — or cause them less damage — in the next two elections.

I appreciate constructive criticism, even when I think the critic is full of prunes.

The daunting task of pandemic response and post-pandemic recovery requires input and assistance from all nations if international efforts are to succeed. Thus, it is time for the international community to welcome Taiwan as a full member of the United Nations.